Obviously the most amount of English is spoken in London or New York. And Paris has the largest number of French speakers, and Madrid or Barcelona, Spanish speakers... How wrong you are!
Aamchi Mumbai apparently has surpassed UK/American metros to become the city with the highest number of English speakers globally. Already India was second to the US in the total number of English speakers. This fascinating fact was revealed by presenter Sandi Toksvig on the BBC comedy panel quiz show, Quite Interesting.
Amazingly, it's not Paris but Kinshasa. The capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest French-speaking city in the world. With over 12 million residents, Kinshasa is way ahead of Paris in French speaker numbers. When the country was colonised by the French, the language become part of culture, daily life, education.
Mexico City is the heart of the Spanish-speaking world! This capital city has the highest number of Spanish speakers globally, thanks to its vast metropolitan population of 9.2 million as opposed to Madrid's 3.2 million.
São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, tops the list for the highest number of Portuguese speakers in a metropolis globally. Located in the world’s largest Portuguese-speaking country, it’s also home to the Museum of the Portuguese Language, the first of its kind, founded in 2006.
There are no statistics available on which is the largest Hindi-speaking city in India. Logically, it is probaby New Delhi. But the Hindi hub outside India is Singapore, thanks to a large Indian Diaspora, making it convenient for Indian travellers exploring the city.
Singapore also boasts the highest number of Mandarin speakers outside China, about 2 million. Mandarin is one of the country’s four official languages -- alongside English, Malay, and Tamil.
Gujaratis live in over 130 of the world's 195 countries. Patel is the 95th most common last name in th US, 3rd most common in Greater London. There are no exact stats on the cities with max Gujarati speakers outside India. Karachi has some 3.5 million Gujaratis. Greater London approximately 400,000. Over 200,000 of 710,000 Indians in the New York metropolitan area, that includes parts of NJ, are Gujaratis.
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, in Africa, but part of the Arab world has the highest number of Arabic speakers globally.
Dhaka has a population of 24 million per World Population Review 2024. A majority of Dhaka's population is Bengali-speaking, making it the largest Bengali-speaking city in the world, surpassing cities outside Bangladesh. Kolkata has a population of over 15.5 million and about 90 per cent of the city's denizens speak Bengali.
Cities with highest Tamil-speaking population outside India are Colombo and Batticaloa with over 500,000 Tamilians each, Durban with over 380,000 Tamilians, London with over 200,000, Toronto with over 200,000, Singapore with nearly 200,000 or more, and Penang with over 200,000, according to each countries respective censuses.